Common questions relating to Crawley Down Lease Extensions

  • I bought a one bedroom first floor purpose built flat in Crawley Down. The lease started in 1997 for 99 years. Now I am looking to extend the lease. I am unclear about additional expenses, could you tell me please how much I should expect to spend on this?
  • My neighbours and I are in a block containing three flats in Crawley Down and have been offered to buy the freehold for 5k per flat rather than go for lease extensions. We are all in agreement that we want to do this but how do we get started and what is the likely cost?
  • I am thinking about whether to purchase the freehold or a lease extension of my property in Crawley Down and have been in touch with the freeholder, have had quote for around £2500 to extend the lease. I will be doing a refinance with Santander to free up equity. My adviser handling the remortgage suggested I get two estimates : one for the lease extension and one for the freehold acquisition .The lease started in 1981 and since then the ground rent has increased from £38.00 per year to £200 per year.
  • I have my suspicions that my daughter might be having the wool pulled over her eyes. She submitted an offer on a studio flat in Crawley Down, where the lease is circa sixety seven years but she was informed by the selling agents that the seller had extended it to 125 years. Only now has she been told the homeowner was holding off for her to instruct solicitors prior to commencing with the lease extension. Sounds devious, also it may take time to sort it all out. Am I reading too much into it?
  • Regarding a residence in Crawley Down. lower maisonette. sixety five yrs unexpired. I have negotiated a lease extension price of £20k for 125yrs. Landlord also requested Notice of Claim which I think is a bit over the top. Can you assist.
  • I own 70% in a shared ownership flat with a housing association and I am considering a lease extension on a lease which is now around seventy four years. I need a at my end. Can you advise please? I live near Crawley Down and have a mortgage with Nottingham Building Society.
  • Hopefully an easy question for you, how much is the premium payable for a lease extension on a residential property in Crawley Down for a one bed flat - section 42 is already served?
  • I own the freehold to two flats. Someone has the lease on the lower flat in Crawley Down. I live in the top flat. I was looking at the land registry documents recently when I noticed that my flat is leasehold. There is seventy years residual lease term. Can one do a lease extension without instructing a ?
  • We wanted an estimate on the cost of a lease extension and a few more questions answered regarding a lease extension for my one bedroom apartment in Crawley Down
  • I'm looking for some advice with regard to a lease extension on my one bedroom ground floor purpose built maisonette in Crawley Down. I'll be looking to do this sometime next year as we need to move at some point then. Unfortunately the current lease is now very short and therefore I'm guessing it'll be expensive to extend. I'm also thinking that I'll probably have to go down the tribunal route. Should I look to extend it now or wait until I sell my place and have it all tied in with the property sale?

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